Welcome to TEXT! — the weekly, or fortnightly, or sometimes monthly newsletter with an exclamation mark in its title. And caps. It’s written by me, Adam Smyth, Seer Green & Jordans ‘Cub of the Year’ for 1984, and currently Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book, at Balliol College, Oxford. A picture of a bicycle follows.

But what is this website? That’s a terrific question. Perhaps the best way to think of TEXT! is as the area on a Venn diagram where this meets with this and this and also this.

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Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book, Balliol College, Oxford